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March 1, 2009

Standalone Offline Installer for Google Chrome

When you download the setup for Google Chrome's site, you're only downloading the installer for Google Updater. The updater downloads Google Chrome's full setup and then installs the software. Here's an excerpt from a Squid report:

But sometimes you can't install the auto-updating software or you need to perform an offline install of the software. To solve these issues, Google Chrome started to offer a standalone installer.

Google notes that "the version of Google Chrome available from the link below may not auto-update to future browser releases, meaning you could miss important security fixes and feature improvements. If you install Google Chrome using the link below, bookmark this page and check back periodically to manually download newer releases." When I installed Chrome using the offline setup, Google added the auto-updating service.

I've been using the standalones mainly for testing, or for having a separate browser with the same feature-set for other things.

Mainly i do this so i can have the windows save the Windowed locations separately for certain websites. Also for browsing on other sites i don't consider as safe as the ones i usually do, or in case it potentially crashes the whole browser (which hasn't happened ever since the whole %: thing anyway)

But funny thing, i did have to use the standalone one day because i screwed up my beta 2 install.It wouldn't install the v1 Chrome because i screwed up the directories.Eventually i figured out it saved registry entries for the auto-updater, so i had to delete the registry entries and directories.Worked after that.

Is there a chance that the offline installer be updated to the most update version 2.0.172.43? It seems that current version 2.0.172.28 have the proxy problem which still unless to me in my environment.

using standalone=1 in the URL, i downloaded chromesetup_195_38.exe.if i were to download it again few minutes later, chromesetup_195_38.exehas a different md5sum as the previous one. is it corrupted?

and if i download directly from http://dl.google.com/chrome/install/195.38/chrome_installer.exei would get a standalone installer but not the same md5sum as above?

so which is the real offline installer (using standalone=1 or directly from dl.google.com)? what's the difference between both offline installers and why is the chromesetup_195_38.exe differs each time i redownload the executable? server not setup properly? perhaps a google employee can shed some light?

worst of all why is google referencing versions using 195.38instead of 3.0.195.38? imagine one day, google decide to open their ftp for developers to download and test different versions of their browser.

Poor, poor show from google. All I want is to download a full standalone installer but keep ending up on a page with a 'install' button. Why do they make something that should be so easy so damn hard ?

I meet an error and can't install it although I 've downloaded it via https://www.google.com/chrome/eula.html?standalone=1 .I think the Google does not want us to use the Chrome any more!Error code: 0x80070057Bye!

im trying from sudi arabia..why geole showing in arabic only..are the engineers in google "nuts" are they think oly arabs are use internet in gcc? who will explain the idiots in google about this situation